A Look at Tok Pisin save: A Lexical Verb and an Aspectual Marker in a Cultural Context

• Authors: Kornacki Paweł
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper studies a common Tok Pisin lexical verb and auxiliary save ‘know’; ‘habitual’, respectively, and its prominent uses in examples of social interaction described in one section of the Wantok magazine and a Papua New Guinean writer’s short narrative. The linguistic material examined here seems to point to the semantic category of ‘social rela- tionship nouns’ (SRNs) as relevant to the contextually and culturally adequate understand- ing of the examined examples of Tok Pisin usage.

Keywords

EN

Tok Pisin,; Tok Pisin save,; creole,; culture,; social relationship nouns

• Publisher: Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw
• Journal: Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2019
• Issue: 28/2
• Pages: 79-93

Contributors

author

Kornacki Paweł

• University of Warsaw

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